Three Midcoast Maine Farms open 11am to 4pm for this kid and family friendly event, but PLEASE, leave the dog at home.

Kid Hugging Day is April 23. Stop by one of our partner farms, hug some kids, sample some cheese, and welcome the beginning of our cheese making season. Visit Appleton Creamery in Appleton, Copper Tail Farm in Waldoboro, and Fuzzy Udder Creamery in Whitefield.Goat cheese and other products will be available for purchase.

Learn the basics of goat cheese. We will make chèvre (a French style of fresh goat cheese), and many of its variations, as well as feta and a quick mozzarella and ricotta. We’ll discuss how goat milk is different from other milks, and why certain cheeses are better made with goat milk. Do you have goats and want to make cheese? Are you thinking of getting goats? Meet the goats and decide for yourself!

Offered: April 17, 2017 (This is when enough volume of goat milk becomes available.) Fee: $150 – one day workshop $50 deposit (non-refundable) due at the time of registration (If a workshop is cancelled due to weather or other reasons beyond our control, workshop is refundable or rescheduled.). We accept cash, check, money order or credit/debit/PayPal. Continue reading →

Sunday, October 9 — Goatapalooza! 11-4
Come visit! Tour the farm, meet the goats, enjoy some pizza hot from the oven. Joining us again this year will be Copper Tail Farm with their goat milk caramels, cajeta, and yogurt, Sisters Soap goat milk soaps, Dragon Fly Cove Farm with goat meat products, Back 40 Bakehouse, and local spinner Penelope Olsen will be spinning goat fiber. New this year: Fast Food Prints making tee-shirts on the spot!

Get your hands in the curd with this two-day workshop where we explore some classic French-style cheeses, including but not limited to camembert, chaorce, tomme, banon, epoisses, chevre. As Charles de Gaulle once famously said: “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”, so there is no one cheese that represents France. We’ll explore the different regions of French cheesemaking, and how some of those cheeses came to be. We’ll also discuss milk chemistry, rennet, and the use of starter cultures, and affinage.

Offered: February 6 & 7, 2016

Fee: $300 single, $575/couple or 2 family members (one set of notes)

$50 deposit (nonrefundable) due at the time of registration. Snail Mail option: download and print Registration Form. We accept cash, check, money order or credit/debit/paypal.

A hands-on workshop in basic home cheese making. In this two-day workshop we’ll be using simple equipment you may already have at home to make a jack cheese the first day, press overnight, then finish the second. In addition, we will also make feta, yogurt, a lactic cheese, quick mozzarella, ricotta (a whey cheese) and butter, depending on the interests of the class. This workshop will concentrate on basic cow cheeses using grocery store milk but will also delve briefly into goat cheese. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. You will go home with cheese that you’ve made!

We will spend the day making one hard cheese, but along the way we’ll discuss the different steps that go into making a hard cheese, and how a slight change here or there will result in a totally different cheese. We’ll discuss the differences between milks, starter cultures, rennet, pH, aging and rind development.

Heat 2 T olive oil in a skillet. Add salami and prosciutto; saute until hot. In a bowl, combine salami, prosciutto, cheeses and 2 eggs; mix well.
Preheat oven to 350. Mix flour with 5 T olive oil, salt and enough wine to make the dough come together. Knead well on a floured surface and cut into 2 uneven pieces. Roll out both pieces into 1/4-inch-thick circles. Grease a tart pan and line it with the larger piece of dough. Spread the filling inside, cover with the remaining dough and crimp the borders. Brush with 1 beaten egg. Bake for around 1 hour, or until crust is golden. Serves 8